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Measurement of the pp̄→tt̄ production cross section and the top quark mass at s=1.96TeV in the all-hadronic decay mode

  • T. Aaltonen
  • , A. Abulencia
  • , J. Adelman
  • , T. Affolder
  • , T. Akimoto
  • , M. G. Albrow
  • , S. Amerio
  • , D. Amidei
  • , A. Anastassov
  • , K. Anikeev
  • , A. Annovi
  • , J. Antos
  • , M. Aoki
  • , G. Apollinari
  • , T. Arisawa
  • , A. Artikov
  • , W. Ashmanskas
  • , A. Attal
  • , A. Aurisano
  • , F. Azfar
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Abstract

We report the measurements of the tt̄ production cross section and of the top quark mass using 1.02fb-1 of pp̄ data collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We select events with six or more jets on which a number of kinematical requirements are imposed by means of a neural network algorithm. At least one of these jets must be identified as initiated by a b-quark candidate by the reconstruction of a secondary vertex. The cross section is measured to be σtt̄=8.3±1.0(stat)-1.5+2.0(syst) ±0.5(lumi)pb, which is consistent with the standard model prediction. The top quark mass of 174.0±2.2(stat)±4.8(syst)GeV/c2 is derived from a likelihood fit incorporating reconstructed mass distributions representative of signal and background.

Original languageEnglish
Article number072009
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume76
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 22 Oct 2007

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